Debating World Literature

Prendergast, Christopher [Editor]; Anderson, Benedict [Contributor]; Apter, Emily [Contributor]; Corngold, Stanley [Contributor]; Dew, Nicholas [Contributor]; Goldhill, Simon [Contributor]; Heath, Stephen [Contributor]; Hoesel-Uhlig, Stefan [Contributor]; Madsen, Peter [Contributor]; Moretti, Franco [Contributor]; Orsini, Francesca [Contributor]; Reiss, Timothy J. [Contributor]; Ross, Bruce Clunies [Contributor]; Sampson Vera Tudela, Elisa [Contributor]; Sturrock, John [Contributor];

ISBN 10: 1859844588 / ISBN 13: 9781859844588

Published by Verso Books, 2004

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Title: Debating World Literature

Publisher: Verso Books

Publication Date: 2004

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

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Synopsis:

In the continuing debates about the cultural dimensions of globalization, the question of ‘literature’ has been something of a poor relation. This volume seeks to redress the balance. It takes as its starting point Goethe’s idea of Weltliteratur, from which it then travels out to various parts of the globe at different historical junctures. Among its many concerns are the legacies of Goethe’s idea, variable understandings of the term ‘literature’ itself, cross-cultural encounters, the nature of ‘small literatures’, and the cultural politics of literary genres. With contributions from many of the leading voices in the field, Debating World Literature seeks to transcend the pieties and simplifications of polemic in a search for the complexity embodied in the linking of the two terms ‘world’ and ‘literature’.

About the Author:

Christopher Prendergast is Emeritus Professor of Modern French Literature at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of King's College Cambridge. He is the co-editor of World Reader, an anthology of world literature.